US Plant Patent PP16520

Balucpea

Lantana plant named ‘Balucpea’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 6, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 20, 2024. This patent earned 107 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16520, the photograph of Balucpea printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16520, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP16520
Filed: December 20, 2004
Granted: May 9, 2006
Expires: April 6, 2025
Assignee: BALL HORTICULTURAL CO
Inventor: TREES SCOTT C

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Lantana plant named ‘Bulucpea’ characterized by its flowers transitioning in color from medium yellow when first open to orange at maturity, free flowering, dark green-colored foliage, and compact, upright, and mounded growth habit.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Lantana camara plant named ‘Balucpea’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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